Embedded Network Device Management for Local Data Processing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing network device management systems face inefficiencies and timeliness issues due to high data processing demands on analyzers managing multiple devices, leading to reduced management efficiency.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a management application and network device application on the same processing chip, utilizing virtual bridges or local loopback addresses and socket port numbers for data communication, and leveraging AI chips for data processing when available, to manage network devices independently without external analyzers.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If an external analyzer is used to manage multiple network devices, then comprehensive monitoring and troubleshooting capabilities are achieved, but the data processing pressure on the analyzer becomes too high, leading to low management efficiency and timeliness issues
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements self-service by enabling network devices to perform self-monitoring and self-diagnosis through embedded management applications. The network device collects its own operational data, processes it locally, and generates management information without requiring external analyzer intervention, thereby resolving the contradiction between comprehensive management capability and processing pressure.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments the management function by separating the management application from the network device application, with each running in independent containers. This segmentation allows the management application to handle data processing locally on the network device, distributing the processing load and eliminating the bottleneck of centralized external analyzers.
2Ease of operation
If all network devices send data to a centralized analyzer for processing, then centralized management control is achieved, but the data transmission and processing time increases, making it difficult to ensure timeliness
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transitions from a centralized external management model to a distributed embedded management model by moving the management application into the network device itself. This dimensional change in system architecture allows real-time local processing while maintaining standardized interfaces, achieving both timeliness and ease of operation.
3Stability of the object's composition
If a management application and network device application run on separate systems, then system stability is improved, but communication overhead and data transmission complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies the nested doll principle by embedding the management application within the same container environment as the network device application. Both applications share the same runtime environment and resources, reducing communication overhead and simplifying the architecture while maintaining functional independence through container isolation.
Data Source
AI summary
A network device management method, system and apparatus relate to the technical field of network device, which are applied to a management application deployed on a network device, the management application is to manage the network device, the network device application is to realize a network communication function of the network device. The method includes: sending a data acquisition command to the network device application, so that the network device application sends a data response to the management application in response to the data acquisition command, wherein the network device application and the management application run on the same processing chip in the network device, and the data response includes data requested by the data acquisition command; processing the data included in the data response to obtain a processing result; implementing network device management based on the processing result. The technical solution provided by examples of the present disclosure may make full use of the computing resources of the network device itself, so as to improve the efficiency of network device management.